Analyses of material collected recently and considerations of biogeographic coherence support the formation of a Porphyronota carnifex species-group, comprising four separate entities. Thus, the previously known P. carnifex s. str. is now subdivided into P. carnifex (Fabricius), with an exclusive northwestern Cape distribution, and P. variegata (Boheman, 1857), with a broader eastern, circum-Drakensberg distribution. The elevation to species level of P. carnifex rougemonti Holm, 1990 from Ethiopia, as proposed earlier by Antoine in 2004, is supported. Porphyronota carnifex tottenhami Holm, 1990 from Angola is also recognized as a proper species, on the basis of several diagnostic characters including a completely black head in both sexes, a great reduction of the paler areas on the abdominal sternites and a poor lateral extension of the ventral lobes of the aedeagal parameres..
How to translate text using browser tools
1 March 2012
Review of Porphyronota carnifex (Fabricius, 1781) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)
R. Perissinotto
ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE
It is not available for individual sale.
This article is only available to subscribers.
It is not available for individual sale.
It is not available for individual sale.
African Entomology
Vol. 20 • No. 1
March 2012
Vol. 20 • No. 1
March 2012
Afrotropical Region
new species-group
Porphyronota
South Africa